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law after most of the birther movement had folded up their birth certifications and gone home. he was still out there running and campaigning openly in 2012 on berth rism. >> if the president is not a natural born citizen, then he does not control the military. so the question i have, if your congress, will you pursue some kind of an investigation to find out whether or not this guy is really a citizen and entitled to those authority? >> yes. you know, i see it as -- if we do our job from a grass roots standpoint, we won't have to worry about it. you know what, we'll send him back home to kenya or wherever it is. >> congressman mark meadows has not seemed to spend much time investigating his secret place in cainia. it was mark meadows that wrote the letter demanding that he make funding the government contingent on obama care. mark meadows got 80 signatures for congress in that letter, and john boehner shut down the government but exactly the means that mark meadows he demanded. and the fact that this started with a guy who was runnings as a birther in 2012, ought to have been
law after most of the birther movement had folded up their birth certifications and gone home. he was still out there running and campaigning openly in 2012 on berth rism. >> if the president is not a natural born citizen, then he does not control the military. so the question i have, if your congress, will you pursue some kind of an investigation to find out whether or not this guy is really a citizen and entitled to those authority? >> yes. you know, i see it as -- if we do our...
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under the law. they have done it all over the world. this will be perhaps not american boots on the ground. but if this actually worked, it would be american advisers under the u.n. flag with blue helmets going into syria to do this. >> nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. thank you, thank you very much. chris matthews. you want to jump in. in terms of the difficulty andrea mitchell is talking about. in terms of making this work. my personal take on this is that of course this is going to be difficult. but this is exactly the hard thing that we should be working on. it is to the point of the real fact that has been proven and accepted if most people don't agree we should be wading into the syrian civil war in a broader way. >> andrea do you believe the russians have an interest in preventing the spread of chemical and weapons of mass destruction to islamists? >> we can answer that. andrea can't. andrea is on nbc. to your point. i think that russia has an interest, but they have never felt like pressing it before. the
under the law. they have done it all over the world. this will be perhaps not american boots on the ground. but if this actually worked, it would be american advisers under the u.n. flag with blue helmets going into syria to do this. >> nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. thank you, thank you very much. chris matthews. you want to jump in. in terms of the difficulty andrea mitchell is talking about. in terms of making this work. my personal take on this is that of...
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i believe that the state board of elections is going to say, hey, this is the law. i mean, how can you go around the law? >> i can tell that you have the appetite for the fight. i cannot tell, from talking to you, whether you are just spinning me by saying that you think you're going to win. is that just like, oh, yeah, i'm confident, like -- but, really, do you think you're going to win? >> i'm completely -- i am absolutely optimistic, sure i'm going to win. >> everything's against you. the local board's against you. the state board is republican controlled. >> that's right. >> appointed by the governor, who just rolled back voting rightsfort than any other state in the country, since the voting rights act was passed in the 1965. >> mm-hmm. >> everything's stacked against you, and you're like, oh, i'm going to win. >> oh, yeah. i'm completely sure. i'm completely sure. and not only do i know that the students are behind me and supporting me, but i believe that a large number of people in the fourth ward are going to vote for me. i'm really sure about that. >> you a
i believe that the state board of elections is going to say, hey, this is the law. i mean, how can you go around the law? >> i can tell that you have the appetite for the fight. i cannot tell, from talking to you, whether you are just spinning me by saying that you think you're going to win. is that just like, oh, yeah, i'm confident, like -- but, really, do you think you're going to win? >> i'm completely -- i am absolutely optimistic, sure i'm going to win. >> everything's...
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it was hard but finally in 195 of he signed in aid the federal highway law. that lead to interstate. it was sort after grand vision that eisenhower had in behind when he signed that bill. in order to create the grand vision to interlinked interstate highways it meant building big new road that didn't exist at all but also meant existing smaller roads. building them out and making them inner connected. and that interconnecting of roads and bridges, is how this bridge in 1955 became part of eisenhower's grand plan. this became new a new interstate 5 marked in red along the west of your screen. it goes from the canadian border in the north and mexican border of the south. this bridge north of seattle is a steel truss bridge. in the 19 as when we were builting up our highway system, this was basic lay ubiquitous design. sturdy and dependable. cost competitive and highly versatile. they were everywhere. one of the distinguishing features of bridges built like this is the specific way in which they distribute their weight. the principle upon which all trusses rely
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law against gay people having sex. he also used the power of his office to hound a virginia professor, who is a leading scientist on climate change. he has been moving heaven and earth in virginia to close down the state's abortion clinics. one of his first acts of attorney general was to overtly advise state universities that they should not feel constrained by anti-discrimination laws. he wrote to them to assure them, just in case they wanted to, it would be okay if they wanted to fire a professor just for being gay. he wanted to let them know it would be all right. oh, and he also tried to get the nice lady on virginia's official commonwealth seal to put some freaking clothes on. can't we cover this lady up? for his next act, ken cuccinelli wants to be governor. he is running for governor in the election that is this year in virginia. because he is who he is, because his base of support is so far out there on the edge, mr. cuccinelli apparently decided this year he could not secure the republican nomination for gove
law against gay people having sex. he also used the power of his office to hound a virginia professor, who is a leading scientist on climate change. he has been moving heaven and earth in virginia to close down the state's abortion clinics. one of his first acts of attorney general was to overtly advise state universities that they should not feel constrained by anti-discrimination laws. he wrote to them to assure them, just in case they wanted to, it would be okay if they wanted to fire a...
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still tumbling national free fall, president obama signed a $700 billion economic stimulus plan into law to try to arrest that fall, to try to make the nightmare stop. the president went to denver, colorado, to sign that bill when it was ready to be signed. and on the occasion of president obama's trip to denver to sign that stimulus bill to try to save the economy, they staged a rally called "barack obama: you don't know stimulus." it had a name. and i say it was a staged rally because it was organized by americans for prosperity, which put out a call on conservative networks for people to show up in costume pig noses and carrying giant checks. it was a staged protest with help from the tea party group, americans for prosperity. they staged these in states around the country, not always with pig noses. at the rally in virginia, you can see the supposedly grassroots angry commoners all showed one preprinted "americans for prosperity" signs. also that year, americans for prosperity tried the same kind of color-by-numbers prefab protests on energy issues. they called it their hot air tour.
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, the law required me to be rachel maddow boehner. that was just the way you had to do it. and under texas law as of this week, that would mean that i would not be allowed to vote there. if i'm registered under the name rachel ann maddow or rachel maddow or rachel boehner, that would not exactly match what was on my i.d. because my i.d. by law had to say rachel maddow boehner. and therefore under the brand new texas voter i.d. law that has just gone into effect for the first time this week, as early voting starts for the november elections this year in texas, women in texas who have never done anything weirder under texas state law than get married and get the married lady i. that texas required them to get, women who have done nothing weirder than that in their lives are finding they are being blocked from voting because of this new texas voting. texas' new voting law makes you show documentation in order to vote that you never had to show before. and it's such a strict law that before it went into effect this week there was worries
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and how do law enforcement and good interrogators pull those threats? joining us now is ali soufan, a former fbi special agent who proved the first link between al qaeda and 9/11 after the first attacks. the book he wrote about his experience in the fbi is called "the black banners: the inside story of 9/11 and the war against al qaeda. great to have you here. >> it's great to be here again. thank you. >> when you heard the transcript of what happened at the bedside of the suspected bomber in boston today with him being read his rights, being advised he has the right to remain silent, as a former high level fbi interrogator, how does that sound to you? >> it sounds great. that's exactly how we should deal with these individuals. there is nothing special about them. they committed a crime, and they need to be punished for that crime. and this system, our federal system is one of the best systems in dealing with al qaeda, in dealing with terrorism. i'll give you an example. since 9/11 until today, we had probably about more than 165, 170 cases of terroris
and how do law enforcement and good interrogators pull those threats? joining us now is ali soufan, a former fbi special agent who proved the first link between al qaeda and 9/11 after the first attacks. the book he wrote about his experience in the fbi is called "the black banners: the inside story of 9/11 and the war against al qaeda. great to have you here. >> it's great to be here again. thank you. >> when you heard the transcript of what happened at the bedside of the...
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north carolina's voter suppression law has been called one of the worst voter suppression laws passed in any state since 1965, since before the voting rights act was enacted to put a stop to literacy tests, poll taxes and the like. we want to north carolina to cover the story of a college sten year at elizabeth city state university, montravius king, trying to run for city council in elizabeth city which is where his school is located. he has lived there and voted there since 2009. but when he tried to run for office, the chairman of the local republican party turned up and challenged his right to run. he told the board that king shouldn't be allowed to run for city council because he lived at college. that meant he couldn't be a real resident of that town. he said going to college in that town doesn't really count as living there. now, the local elections board, republican dominated agreed with him and said, yeah, king can't run. and the really deep thing about that decision, its that the residency requirements for running for office are the same as the residency requirements for vot
north carolina's voter suppression law has been called one of the worst voter suppression laws passed in any state since 1965, since before the voting rights act was enacted to put a stop to literacy tests, poll taxes and the like. we want to north carolina to cover the story of a college sten year at elizabeth city state university, montravius king, trying to run for city council in elizabeth city which is where his school is located. he has lived there and voted there since 2009. but when he...
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of the law. they did change part of it. they changed it so medicaid in the states is optional instead of mandatory. states can opt out of expanding their medicaid programs. 22 states have opted out or leaning towards opting out already. this number is still fluid. continues to change. for instance, ohio today moved toward saying yes to expanding medicaid. and yes, those 22 states so now, even just a few weeks there is no single story to tell about how reforming health care in america is going so far. there's a lot of different smaller stories. the right, of course, is hoping for broad brush failure. >> average americans, their families will also feel the pain thanks to the health care overhaul train wreck and six are here with us tonight to tell their story. >> that's a man named sean hannity who hosts a television show on the fox news channel across the street from us. he interviewed three families who he says have been suffering with the boot of obama care on their necks. obama care is the end
of the law. they did change part of it. they changed it so medicaid in the states is optional instead of mandatory. states can opt out of expanding their medicaid programs. 22 states have opted out or leaning towards opting out already. this number is still fluid. continues to change. for instance, ohio today moved toward saying yes to expanding medicaid. and yes, those 22 states so now, even just a few weeks there is no single story to tell about how reforming health care in america is going...
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you make the law require something then you change the law to prevent you from getting that thing. and by virtue of the fact you don't have that thing, you get shut down. there used to be two clinics that provided abortions in toledo, but the other was shut down by the same provision in the law two months ago. that clinic had been around for 30 years. it had been bombed and protested and forced to move three times, but it had always kept its doors open. until it shut down in june because this new transfer agreement, t.r.a.p. in ohio law. now the other clinic in toledo. the last remaining clinic in toledo is getting shut down, too, by the same law. you hear people talk about t.r.a.p. laws. this is the kind of t.r.a.p. they mean. require a clinic to have something, and then ban them by law from having it. and you shut it down because they don't have it. this is how republican legislators and governors are banning legal abortion in our country whenever they're in power, roe v. wade or no roe v. wade. prior to this summer, ohio had 13 abortion clinics. by the end of this summer, thanks
you make the law require something then you change the law to prevent you from getting that thing. and by virtue of the fact you don't have that thing, you get shut down. there used to be two clinics that provided abortions in toledo, but the other was shut down by the same provision in the law two months ago. that clinic had been around for 30 years. it had been bombed and protested and forced to move three times, but it had always kept its doors open. until it shut down in june because this...
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speech would make for an excellent time for you to announce say that you have been questioned by federal law enforcement authorities in conjunction with a major corruption scandal in your state. seems like as good a time to mention it as any. the biggest political race in the governor's race in virginia. ken cuccinelli sat down for a local news interview on tuesday night before president obama's speech to admit he had been -- into the bob mcdonnell corruption scandal. ken cuccinelli said he was questioned in that scandal months and months ago, but is just admitting it now. he also announced in the same interview he is paying back the 1800 in gifts he and his family received from the same generous business man whose gifts are at the center of the mcdonald case. the federal and state investigation is going to try to determine took the governor to help one virginia company had anything at all to -- gave mcdonald and his family a check for $10,000, then $20,000. then $50,000. and an engraved rolex watch and another $10,000 for another daughter's wedding and then a trip last labor day weekend and
speech would make for an excellent time for you to announce say that you have been questioned by federal law enforcement authorities in conjunction with a major corruption scandal in your state. seems like as good a time to mention it as any. the biggest political race in the governor's race in virginia. ken cuccinelli sat down for a local news interview on tuesday night before president obama's speech to admit he had been -- into the bob mcdonnell corruption scandal. ken cuccinelli said he was...
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see what happens to them if the texas bill becomes law. only five remaining in the whole state. another version of this map was made by supporters of abortion rights in texas. but this same version has been used by supporters of closing the clinics, too, to explain why they're doing this. lieutenant governor of texas tweeting they, quote, fought to pass the bill through the senate and this is why. so they can close as many clinics as possible. they're saying that's what they want to do. abortion might technically be legal in texas, but texas republicans are going to make it so texas women cannot actually get one. same difference in the end. today the sponsor of the texas bill rejected amendments that would try to achieve the stated aims of her bill without closing down all the clinics. she rejected all proposed amendments. the point is bluntly to close the clinics. a new poll out today from ppp shows among voters in texas who have formed an opinion about the bill, more people oppose it than support it by eight points. but just over half of texas voters say they don't have any op
see what happens to them if the texas bill becomes law. only five remaining in the whole state. another version of this map was made by supporters of abortion rights in texas. but this same version has been used by supporters of closing the clinics, too, to explain why they're doing this. lieutenant governor of texas tweeting they, quote, fought to pass the bill through the senate and this is why. so they can close as many clinics as possible. they're saying that's what they want to do....
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it became law, it got ruled constitutional at the united states supreme court, and it's now going into effect. republicans, of course, say they still hate it, but it is going into effect. and now the political effect of health reform does turn out to be the aforementioned waterloo, but the side that is breaking apart is not president obama's side. it is the other side. there is a huge war of words going on right now in american politics, with more insult and invective and people having to say the word "balls" on cnn that we have seen over any partisan issue, lately, when it's one party against the other. the fight that is happening right now, which is completely over the top, it is entirely among republicans. and their attacks on each other are turning out to be rather vicious. >> senator, just yesterday, a senior house republican aide said, it's disappointing to see that wendy davis has more guts than ted cruz. now, he used a different word than "guts." but other republicans have called you a phony and a joke. how do you respond that? >> well, i'm always impressed with the courage of
it became law, it got ruled constitutional at the united states supreme court, and it's now going into effect. republicans, of course, say they still hate it, but it is going into effect. and now the political effect of health reform does turn out to be the aforementioned waterloo, but the side that is breaking apart is not president obama's side. it is the other side. there is a huge war of words going on right now in american politics, with more insult and invective and people having to say...
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the antisodomy law in texas. scalia wanted to laws kept in place, but he famously predicted that that decision would lead to future supreme court decisions that would okay equal marriage rights for gay people, too. and indeed, this summer in two landmark cases, his prediction came true. the supreme court upheld same-sex rights in california and on the same day, struck down the clinton era, defense of marriage act. those twin decisions this summer were basically an earthquake that have since shaken all the remaining antigay laws in this country right to their foundations. and the remaining antigay laws and policies in this country, ever since those rulings, have been falling. one by one. first, it was new jersey. the state's supreme court there ruling in favor of same-sex marriage rights in late october. day days later, new jersey's conservative governor withdrew the state's appeal of the matter. that allowed same-sex couple to get married the next day. then it was hawaii, where major equality bill passed the stat
the antisodomy law in texas. scalia wanted to laws kept in place, but he famously predicted that that decision would lead to future supreme court decisions that would okay equal marriage rights for gay people, too. and indeed, this summer in two landmark cases, his prediction came true. the supreme court upheld same-sex rights in california and on the same day, struck down the clinton era, defense of marriage act. those twin decisions this summer were basically an earthquake that have since...
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law which says you cannot send missiles to iran. or any other kind of weapon. president ronald reagan did it anyway. and that was not only mind blowing that a u.s. president would secretly do something like that. it was also very plainly illegal. in the uncomplicated sense of their being a law in place that says you cannot do that and he did it anyway, this was not a subtle thing. the president was told he could do this blatantly illegal thing by this man, ronald reagan's attorney general ed meese who argued the president's inherent powers as commander in chief, he could violate any law he wanted to as long as it was related to national security. not only could he violate any law, the president should consider himself authorized to withhold any prior or contemporaneous notice to congress. the president was free to sell missiles to iran, free to do anything he wanted as long as it was related to national security no matter the law. he not only did not have to get permission from congress or anything, he didn't even have to tell congress the stuff that he was doi
law which says you cannot send missiles to iran. or any other kind of weapon. president ronald reagan did it anyway. and that was not only mind blowing that a u.s. president would secretly do something like that. it was also very plainly illegal. in the uncomplicated sense of their being a law in place that says you cannot do that and he did it anyway, this was not a subtle thing. the president was told he could do this blatantly illegal thing by this man, ronald reagan's attorney general ed...
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during which time there will be no right to a trial or to due process of law. egyptians lived under a similar state of emergency that was declared by hosni mubarak, that state of emergency lasted for 34 years. also today, as if to underscore a nation under military rule. the egyptian government named new governors. of the 25, 19 of the new governors are generals. either police generals or army generals. and several of the ones who aren't generals are mubarak loyalists from the old regime. the vice president of egypt mohammed al varaday resigned today in protest against today's crackdown. covering this most important story in the world right now is dangerous on the ground. among an overall death toll today, widely reported to be in the hundreds. said by the muslim brotherhood to be in the thousands. journalists are also being injured in killed. mick dean was a veteran cameraman for sky news. shot and killed today in cairo. the rest of his sky news team was uninjured. a journalist with gulf news was also killed today. she was not even on an official assignment co
during which time there will be no right to a trial or to due process of law. egyptians lived under a similar state of emergency that was declared by hosni mubarak, that state of emergency lasted for 34 years. also today, as if to underscore a nation under military rule. the egyptian government named new governors. of the 25, 19 of the new governors are generals. either police generals or army generals. and several of the ones who aren't generals are mubarak loyalists from the old regime. the...
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there have been fbi law enforcement leaks about what happened from the beginning. all contradictory, but all making it seem like the fbi did the right thing by shooting and killing this guy. in the face of all that unnamed source leaking, the official word has been nothing. unofficial self-exonerating leaks by the dozens. but officially nothing. the boston globe describing the fbi in this case as being unusually tight lipped, saying their refusal to clarify anything contrasts sharply with past shootings involving agents. the only word from the fbi officially at all was that violent confrontation press release the day of the shooting. and the next day the address where the shooting happened. the only thing they said is the shooting is under review. we cannot comment regarding investigative details, the fbi takes seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents and we have an effective time tested process for reviewing them thoroughly. this is supposed to be or reassurance, be patient. this whole thing makes no sense but the fbi itself will get to the bottom of
there have been fbi law enforcement leaks about what happened from the beginning. all contradictory, but all making it seem like the fbi did the right thing by shooting and killing this guy. in the face of all that unnamed source leaking, the official word has been nothing. unofficial self-exonerating leaks by the dozens. but officially nothing. the boston globe describing the fbi in this case as being unusually tight lipped, saying their refusal to clarify anything contrasts sharply with past...
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we have 20,000 gun laws in this country. far too many as far as i'm concerned. >> the question is as it relates to firearms can you just pass another law that says you can't own these, pass another law that says you can't sell drugs. it's just not going to work. >> you know, the term assault weapon actually makes me laugh, because i've never seen a weapon jump out of its case and assault a human being. it's a person that does that. you know? the gun is a tool. >> what do you need to have all of these weapons that you can kill and over kill? those kinds of things are not necessary for -- to protect your family and your house because you have to have a hundred-round magazine. >> every gun is destructive. automobiles are destructive. swimming pools are destructive. ladders. people die all sorts of ways every year. a man killed his wife with a power sander the other day. it can be anything. your chance of being a victim of a mass murder are less than your chances of going down in a plane. far less. so do we change? do we alter?
we have 20,000 gun laws in this country. far too many as far as i'm concerned. >> the question is as it relates to firearms can you just pass another law that says you can't own these, pass another law that says you can't sell drugs. it's just not going to work. >> you know, the term assault weapon actually makes me laugh, because i've never seen a weapon jump out of its case and assault a human being. it's a person that does that. you know? the gun is a tool. >> what do you...
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that vote passed with bipartisan saw s support and the gun laws are sign need law. nicole hokly interintroduced the president when he spoke in connecticut. 11 family members traveled back with him to washington, d.c. on air force 1 and when they got to washington, d.c., they sfart started the process of meeting with senators. again, summoning the strength, meeting these senators directly, explaining, talking about who it was that they lost and what it means to them and how this senator's vote, you, senator, look at me eye to eye, could help stop this from happening to somebody else's child. and at the end of those meetings, 22 senators who have a ratings from the nra voted with the majority to move the debate forward. to defeat the filibuster. to at least let it come for a vote. 22 senators with a ratings from the nra were on the let it go forward side of that vote. tonight and tomorrow, there are dozens of pro reform events planned all over the country. in arizona tonight, starting tomorrow in california and colorado and florida, georgia, indiana, maine, nevada, no
that vote passed with bipartisan saw s support and the gun laws are sign need law. nicole hokly interintroduced the president when he spoke in connecticut. 11 family members traveled back with him to washington, d.c. on air force 1 and when they got to washington, d.c., they sfart started the process of meeting with senators. again, summoning the strength, meeting these senators directly, explaining, talking about who it was that they lost and what it means to them and how this senator's vote,...
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is there any grounding in international law? is it legal under international law for the u.s. to strike syria? >> first, chris, i support the president. i thought secretary kerry was very eloquent in laying out the moral, the legal justifications. i was u.n. ambassador. it'd be nice to get a resolution under chapter 7 authorizing military force. the problem is the russians will veto it. they've said they would. short of that, i would try to get some kind of ban on arm shipments, send assad to the international court of justice that the security council can do. a condemnation statement. i would continue this u.n. effort. at the same time, what we need to assemble to get some legal justification, as we did, for instance, with libya, is what is called a coalition of the willing. european countries, arab countries, the arab league has condemned this. i think this -- this is a very tough decision for the president. i was also, chris, a member of congress. i would like the congress to be brought in, but i think here the president has to make the judgment on what's in the national se
is there any grounding in international law? is it legal under international law for the u.s. to strike syria? >> first, chris, i support the president. i thought secretary kerry was very eloquent in laying out the moral, the legal justifications. i was u.n. ambassador. it'd be nice to get a resolution under chapter 7 authorizing military force. the problem is the russians will veto it. they've said they would. short of that, i would try to get some kind of ban on arm shipments, send...